Concord is Sony's biggest failure in gaming history.

[Ryuu96]

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

Ryuu96 said:

*Conveniently Ignores God of War Ragnarök, Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake.*

Never heard of the First Descendant, it currently sits at 55% on Steam...

Suicide Squad is the first game in existence to sell bad because it's average.

You people must look under your bed at night for SBI, Lmao. They're a goddamn consultancy agency with less than ~20 employees, they do not have anywhere near as major of an impact as your paranoid delusions lead you to believe, here's what happens, a developer implements something, they ask SBI if this has been implemented well, they offer their advice and the developer decides whether they want to take it. But this boogey-man is now the new thing to blame for any reason why any game is bad or fails because you're desperate to spread your hate and make everyone as bitter as yourself.

Concord has done bad because while it is seemingly an "okay-good" title based on what I've heard, that isn't good enough in a market this competitive, Hogwarts Legacy, Wukong, Stellar Blade are SP titles. Concord is competing with some of the biggest multiplayer titles in history which to this date still have millions of people playing them, Concord is competing with F2P titles with millions of players from household name studios as a $40 title from a studio nobody has never heard of with a brand new IP. Concord had poor marketing and released in quite an unfortunate time.

How do you convince Overwatch players to pay $40 to try out Concord instead of them just continuing to play Overwatch? When you don't offer nothing new or revolutionary to the genre, why would people abandon those titles they've spent years in to move over to yours? But oh my bad, it must be none of that, it's because they put a black lady in the game /s.

Btw, SBI had nothing to do with Concord.

It's kinda funny how ravenous you got when someone even references Sbi.  The long-winded diatribe didn't really address much at all.  Maybe they should focus on games rather than culture war crap. Not that hard. Also Alan Wake 2 failed and Spider-Man had some great momentum from the original game which luckily was less influenced in the writing by such firms. If they're not influencing things I guess don't hire them.  Sounds like a useless thing to do 

Kind of funny how you consistently post utter nonsense around these forums and never back your points up. Good thing for your paranoid delusions, SBI had nothing to do with Concord. Maybe you should learn how videogame development works rather than saying "they should focus on games rather than culture war crap" because clearly you don't understand that a tiny consultancy group focused on giving advice on how best to implement inclusive characters does nothing to take away the many areas of developing a videogame.

Please, enlighten us, how does receiving advice on how to write a black character into a videogame with care take away focus from creating mechanics and gameplay features, content and graphics, art-style and technical? In your little mind SBI with their few consultancy workers interfere in studios with 100-200+ employees. You sound like one of those Twitter warriors who scream at social media managers to "focus on the games instead of tweeting" Lol.

Alan Wake 2 has yet to turn a profit, for no reason to do with SBI and more to do with the fact that Alan Wake is a large budget game that isn't a massive seller right out the gate, Alan Wake 1 took 5 years to sell 4.5m copies. Alan Wake 2 was Remedy’s fastest selling game as of February 2024. In 4 months it had sold 1.3m and it would have done even more had it not been exclusive to Epic Game Store.

You ought to look up how Epic Games Publishing contracts work too, EGP cover 100% of development costs (including salaries, QA, localization, marketing, etc.) and developers under these contracts will only earn profit once the costs have been recouped to Epic. Basically, Epic has to make back its investment before Remedy starts receiving profits. So even though Remedy has yet to turn a profit on Alan Wake 2, all the costs were covered by Epic anyway and they'll only start making profit once Epic receives all of its costs back.

Either way, I'll say again, Alan Wake 2 was very well received by both critics and fans. Spider-Man 2 the same, God of War Ragnarök the same. But of course, SBI is only responsible for the bad and you'll come up with an excuse for every good game they've been involved in when the actual truth is that SBI barely has an impact on the quality and sales of any videogame.

And I'll say again, SBI had nothing to do with Concord.

But it won't stop the obsessed running in with low-educated takes of "FAIL CAUSE WOKE/DEI AGENDA"

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 26 August 2024